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BLEASE ON TILLMAN ? SAYS HE DOES NOT NEED THE SENATOR'S SUPPORT JONES TALK OF ISSUES ( "I as Well Qualified to be Governor as Tillman or Anybody Else," Says I'nnnlflU I)T1(I Uovoruur mi-nsvi \^|,.vU Karlo Says They Are Blouse for Governor. Thomas IT. Peeples aw* .T. Ti. Earlo came out for Dleaso. This declaration of preference as to tlie leading candidates for governor by two of tho four candidates for attorney-general was tho news feature of tho State campaign meeting in Laurens. Fairly good order was kept by tho crowd of 3,000 persons, which filled a natural ampitheater at tho edgo of tho town, except that tho chairman John M. Cannon was unable to get a hearing for Judge Jones when the latter sought to make categorical reply to Governor Bloase. Judge Jones gave little timo to self-defense but spent the geater part of his forty-five minute period in explaining politics which he advocates and contrasting these with the policies comprehended in "Bleaseism", * il. ? though ho dl dnot onc& menuou iuu governor's name. Governor Blease repeated the substance of his address ?ti Newberry, omitting, however, the charges there made by him against relatives of Judge Jones who live kt Newberry. Governor Blease referred again to the attitude of 'B. It. Tillman, senior Senator from South Carolina, toward the Blease-Jones campaign. "Jones and his crowd," Blease Hrnfl, "are trying to take a safety-pin and pin Jones onto Ben Tillman's coat tails. Edgefield county has got a man in the race for the United States Senate who Served you as Senator, as superintendent of the penitentiary and for years in congress. He lias done much j for South Carolina. "Laurens county has got a young man in the race who is honorable and high-toned and worthy of any trust that may be reposed in him. ' Why should the Jones people try so hard to hang onto Tillman? lie has his own tight to make. If they had a proper respect for themselves and for Tillman they wouldn't do It. "I don't need Tillman's endorsei merit. I have proven during the past 19 months that I am as well qualified | to bo governor as Hen Tillman or anybody else. They say Hampton was defeated because he interfered in * a family fight and tlioy aro doing their best to get Tillman to Interfere in a family fight. Hut they are not 1 going to got Tillman into 11. The governor declared, In characi terlstically elegant language, that Tillman would never befound, "lined up" with the management of the State. ; Messrs. Peoples and Earle were put ] on record as to their preference between Please and Jones inrough the activity of a self-appointed grand inquisitor, a farmer from Sullivan I township named Tublin, who wore a I Please badge the size of a half dolI lar and who had repeatedly yelled, I "Hurrah for P.arney Evans," while I , tho Attorney-General J. Eraser Eyon E was speaking. Mr. Peeples, however, H refrained from expressing himself unII til after he had ascertained, by means H of a hand primary, that many persons H present, other than Mr. Tumblin, Bj were, interested. B. P. Evans, who left last Saturday E for Plack Mountain, N. C., did not If return until long after his turn to / speak came. In fact, not until Just beB fore tlie meeting ended. P. W. McLaurin, a candidate for H State Treasurer, angrily refused to be H committed on the Please-Jones issue. H (Messrs. Wharton, Carter, Richards || and Cansier, were asiteu whbi-b stood on this matter, tmt the question was not pressed and they all ignored it. "(lentlemen," said Mr; Peoples, "I have always been the friend of the Hon. Colo L. Please, and I see no reaI son H That was enough for inquisitors ' who raised a shout, "Hurrah for Ploaso and Peoples." Mr. Earlo said, "If you want to know where I stand I have voted as a rule with Governor Please on his t vetoes. I have the manhood to vote j for what I believe to bo right. He and I were in the general assembly i together for years and ho and I were i usually on the same side. When he vetoed those appropriations I voted to sustain him, and l am willing to [ do so again." Mr. McLaurin told his questioner I that if ho did not desist from annoy Iing him ho would have him arrested. "You go ask Jones and Blease who they are going to vote for," ho said, "and I'll tell you how I'm going to vote. If you had as much senso as you have got mouth you wouldn't ask me siiwi a question. Wouldn't I be a pretty fool to come before the people asking for such an office as that of State Treasurer with "Blease" or "Jones" branded across my breast? I was a ma nbefore either of them, and I bore myself as a man.' ? Many Found Dead. Two hundred dead woro lying in ^he streets of Ixtapa Monday night ? * ^ - i ^ e Hvhcn Genevevo no i-<a ur uhuu ui ^ Zapatistas halted In Its march to ToU ^Hica, the capital of the state of MexlHy). only fifteen mllert north. The ^Hown was garrisoned hy 100 rurals. Father's Fall Kills Child. Abraham Ansel fell down stairs In ^His home in Lancaster, Pa., while ^Marrying his twenty-month-old child, ^ fls %ill weight landed on the ln^ anf's head and crushed Its skull. It BOW HE FOOLED HER YOUNG WOMAN ANSWERED ADVERTISEMENT FOR WIFE. Tho Brute She Married in That Way I Deserted Her in Three Days After Marriafee. Marry in haste and repent at leisure was the fate of pretty Mrs. Conway G. Hutcheson, formerly Miss I Mary McEachin, and a daughter of a farmer of Broofcor, Ga., according to the story she told Chief Beavers Tuesday morning when she asked that ho find the husband who, she alleges, deserted her after they had been married three days. The girl, who Is only twenty, lived on a big farm about ten miles from Hazleliurst, Ga., and she had never met Hutcheson until she answered an n.1 for (i wlfn. Tim advor I till VC1 IIDU1IIV1I w *V?. M .. tisemtnt read: "Wanted a good country girl for a wife. Ain a rich Virginian. No one but a country girl need apply." Soon letters were exchanged. Then protographs, and finally the man called at the girl's home, where his polished manner and glib tongue won the heart of the girl. But her aged father and mother objected. They begged the girl to wait until they knew more of the man, but the couple ran away from home, taking the midnight train on July 31. They arrived at Atlanta early in the morning, and were married on Thursday, the first of August by Judge Orr. They went to a Mitchell street hotel and remained until Sunday, when they were persuaded by the young girl's sister-in-law to go homo and I nornnfnl hloKHincr. TllCV did ncv iv tn v v/?i v?*? ^ 1,. . so, and reached Brooker, Ga., Sunday, and spent the day with the old | people. Monday morning the husband took the first train, and his wife told Chief Beavers that was the last she had seen of him. That was over a week ago. She had no idea, she told Chief Beavers, that ho was not going to come back, until she received a letter from him, in which ho said that he was gone forever. Ito wrote, she said, that ho was sorry he had married her, and that she need not ever expect to see him again. "And may Ciod forgive me," he concluded, "amicably and peacefully yours." lie had given her $20 when they reached the farm house, and told her that was to buy hef trousseau. The man had every evidence of being wealthy, the girl said, and told her he was worth $40,000. He said his home was in Batenburg, Va., and that ho once owned a portrait enlarging business, but was then traveling for a large house. Ho never gave the firm's name, but ho had a box at the Atlanta postofilce, where he received his mail. After he left the girl at home she received a letter in his handwriting which turned out to be for some business house. The girl said she forwarded it back to his box number, and then her letter was returned. She told Chief Beavers it looked like ho mixed the letters up for a purpose. The man gave his age as 31, and is described as being very tall. He has sandy hair and a dark sandy mustasli, has brown eyes and a crooked nose. The girl wants the man arrested and will at once seek a divorce, she declares, and demand alimony. ? WHY NOT CLAIM ALL. ? Ililles Elects President Taft Easily on Paper. Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican national committee, issued a statement claiming that 3 4 states with a total electoral vote of 3 84 for the Republican ticket and conceding 10 states, with an electoral vote of 114, to the Democratic party. He listed four states, with an electoral vote of 34, as doubtful and conceded no state to tho Progressives. Following are figures submitted by Mr. Hilles In what he calls a preliminary survey of the political situation: Claimod by Republicans: Colorado, 6; Connecticut, 7; Delaware, 3; Idaho, 4; Illinois, 20; Indiana, 15; Iowa, 13; Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 13; Maine, 6; Maryland, 8; Massachusetts, 18; Michigan, 15; Minnesota, 12; Missouri, 18; Montana, 4; Neva'ia 5 "Vnw TTnmnshire. 4: New Jer soy, 14; Now Mexico, 4; New York, 4 5; North Dakota, 5; Ohio, 24; Oregon, 5; Pennsylvania, 38; Rhode Island, 5; South Dakota, 5; Tennessee, 12; Utah, 4; Vermont, 4; Washington, 7; West Virginia, 8; Wisconsin, 13; Wyoming, 3. Total, 384. Conceded to Democrats: Alabama, 12; Arkansas, 9; Florida, 6, Georgia, 14; Louisiana, 10; Mississippi, 10; North Carolina, 12; South Carolina, 9; Texas, 20; Virginia, 12. Total, 114. Listed as doubtful: Arizona, 3; California, 13; Oklahoma, 10; Nebraska, 8. Total, 34. Mr. Hilles also said that the new Progressive party would draw no more heavily from the Republican party than from the Democratic party. , + ? + South to Seo Warships. Secretary iMeyer announced Tuesday that some time this fall or win n'rtiild elirtw tlift Snnth^m nnn. I *.) l nv; n uuiu v??v n/w mvmv* |#%.w plo the magnificent Atlantic fleet at as many as the principal harbors of the South Atlantic and gulf coasts as the dreadnouajjM| can enter or even approach within reasonable distance. Thief Once a Jockey. Ranked when a boy as the premier jockey of the American jturf, with earnings of $50,000 a 3'ear, Grover Cleveland Fuller, who is still only 25 years old limped beforo Judge Crain in General Sessions Thursday in New York, plead to an indictment charging theft of a watch. FORTUNE IN BANKS BECKER, THE NEW YORK CROOK GOT RIGH SHIELDING THE DENS OF INIQUITY In Less Than Nino Month This Dishonest Police Lieutenant lias Doposited Nearly Sixty Thousand Dollars Received from Crooks of all Kinds for Protecting Them. Powerful banking interests, acting through the New York Clearing House committee, cams to the aid of District Attorney Whitman in his efforts to lay bare the alleged corrupt alliance between the police and the gambling fraternity, founded on graft and blackmail. Burns and his detectives are on the Job. A virtual command was given uy the committee to all banks in the clearing house to furnish the district attorney with a record of deposits they may have from any of the high police officials whom the district attorney suspects of having been collectors of blackmail from the disorderly elements of the city. As a result, records showing that within the last eight months Police Lieutenant Charles Pecker, charged with the murder of Herman Rosenthal, and accused of gambling graft has made bank deposits of $58,845 in his own name or that of his wife who wero placed in the hands of the public prosecutor. These deposits, the records show, were first made in November, 1911, shortly after Pecker became head of the "strontr arm sauad" of gambling raiders, and continued all during the time that Jack Rose says he was collecting graft for Becker and until after his arrest. The table of deposits as presented to the district attorney was as follows: Corn Exchange Bank. . .. . .$29,615 Corn Exchange Bank 4,330 Corn Exchange Bank 6,000 Corn Exchange Bank 10,000 Empire Savings Bank 3,500 West Side Savings Bank. . . . 3,000 Lincoln Trust Company. . . . 1,500 Total $58,845 The district attorney had been promised records of Becker's deposits in four other banks which did not have time to go over their accounts and he has also discovered that Becker has an unknown amount of stocks, bonds and othtr securities locked up in two separate safe deposit vaults. That the total value of the police lieutenant's assets will be found to approximate $200,000 would bo no surprise to the district attorney. Becker's salary as a police lieutenant was $2,250 a year. The aid of the clearing house committee was proffered to Mr. Whitman after it became known that his representative had been finding some difficulty in tracing Becker's bank accounts and those of other police officers. Mr. Whitman was assured by leading bankers of the city that they were anxious, as public-spirited citizens, to have the police force purged of its grafters and the whole scandal air'ed and that they would give him every aid in their power. This offer was gladly accepted by the district attorney who said: "I am receiving splendid support from the bankers of New York City. The district attorney has received information that Becker may have put money away in several banks outside of the eity and if these are definitely located the New York bankers have promised to use their influence to secure their production. The prosecution expects that the aid of the banks will bo invaluable to him when he takes up the larger phase of the graft inquiry. ? ' * 1 A l i. 11. ^ ImImI aI it uecame Known mat mo msuici attorney is holding for presentation to the grand jury evidence by which he expects to convict four police inspectors on the charge of collecting blackmail from gambling houses and disorderly resorts. These four men are all aware, it is said, or the nature o^ the evidence and have been trying to cover their tracks. Thus far the state's investigators have uncovered bank accounts of two totalling $75,000. The expected murder indictments by the grand jury were not handed down owing to the time taken up by testimony of various witnesses. One of these was Jaek Rose, who, it was learned, held the jury spellbound for two hours when he repeated tho confession of his part in the murder plot and his alleged graft relations with Lieutenant Becker. One of the jurors is reported to have remarked that he had not heard the equal of the story portrayed in any melodrama. Tho one additional fact of importance which Rose added to his previous accusations that Becker himself was, in effect, the paymas ter of the murder crew. When Becker, Bridgie Webber and Roso met In front of the Murray Hill baths on the morning of tho murder, according to Rose, Becker borrowed from "?Bridgio" Webber the $1,000 "blood money" in large bills, handed it to Rose, who handed it to Schtpps, who then passed it on to "Gyp the Blood" and his three thug companions. ? Fortune Awaits Missing Man. Application has been made by the relatives of William Freed, formerly of Philadelphia, to have him declared legally dead. He disappeared in 18 03 and has not been heard from since. A fortune of several thousand dollars, left by his father, awaits the missing man. The police forco of Evansville, Ind., had to arrest a swarm of bees tho other day after the insects had settled unon a fence post. As has been previously said, tho policeman's lot is not a happy ono. DIED IN COAL MINE SEVENTEEN BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE PIT. C#nsc of Catastrophe Not Ascertained.?Distressed Relatives Hamper Work of Rescue Party. Nineteen negro miners wero instantly killed by an explosion Tuesday morning at the Abernant Coal Company's mines at Abernant, Ala. Seventeen had been taken out at nine o'clock Tuesday night. Forty white men and eighteen negroes, who were in the mine when the explosion occurred, got out alive. The explosion was entry No. 15, 1,200 feet from the surface. The men who escaped were further down in the mine and were able to get past the after damp fumes. Three white miners, wno were nearest the scene of the explosion were slightly injured. The force of the explosion was so great that roof props, mining material and coal cars were demolished. State Mine Inspector Nesbitt reached the scene Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday night was unable to give the exact cause of the explosion, but thought a windy shot had been fired in the pressure of gas and dust. It was still very dangerous Tuesday night to enter the mine. Rescue parties came from Johas, Yoland aiul other nearby mining camps, while they were soon organized for work, their early efforts were greatly hampered by the crowds of distressed friends and relatives about the mine. The mines are owned by the Abernant Coal Company, of which J. 13. McClary is president. Search for the two unrecovered bodies continued Tuesday night. ? ? 4 SENATOR 13. K. TILLMAN. 4 f \\ lilgill 1III lilt' VIKIKItlvl \r a ?* Man All Honor. The Washington Post says no finer tribyte could be paid to a statesman than the one paid by C. Leslie Reynolds, the new superintendent.of the National Botanic Garden, when he said that Senator Benjamin It. Tillman of South Carolina is the best posted man in national life on the subject of plants and shrubs. If more statesmen could study nature as Ben Tillman has the world would be a better place in which to live. It was because he tried to get closer to nature that Senator Tillman got closer to humanity. He came to Washington with a gift of vitriolic speech and a fighting spirit. At first his attacks were none too kind, but in time he learned from nature the great truth that all men are brothers and that the strong must lend a helping hand to the weak. In the senate the other day Senator Tillman spoke of the miracle of his rescue from death by paralysis. It was his own fine spirit that wrought the miracle. His study of plants and shrubs and flowers has brought him to a calmer, saner view of life. Senator Tillman, according to Supt. Reynolds, spends hundreds of dollars yearly in experimenting with new plants for his home in South Carolina. Every dollar that ho spends in this way brings big returns. There are times when it seems that plants and animals know much more of the art of living than human being know. It is profitable to study the tranquility of the garden. To many persons the Tillman of the "pitchfork" may have seemed a thrilling figure; but to those who know the Tillman of to-day his view of life is broader, his spirit finer, and his character nobler. The garden to which Senator Tillman gives his leisure time has aided him in giv-1 ing better service to his state and lias undoubtedly renewed his grip on life. Becoming a horticulturist, he has become a greater statesman. And it is to be hoped, and expected, that many years of usefulness are before him, SHERIFF PUT OFF TRAIN. ? Conductor Refuses to Bet Black Pris? oner Ride In White Smoker. Because he would not travel in the negro compartment, Sheriff V. A. Spinney, of Augusta, Ala., was ejected from a Mobile and Ohio passenger train Wednesday afternoon while carrying a handcuffed prisoner from 'Montgomery to Prattville. The sheriff purchased two first- 1 class tickets for himself and the prisoner, and they sat down in the white smoker. The train had just pulled ( out of the station when the conductor, coming around for tickets, ordered the sheriff to carry his prisoner to the negro compartment. The sheriff refused to do so, whereupon 1 the conductor stopped the train, 1 backed it to the depot and forced the sheriff and the prisoner from the train. ' The sheriff has employed counsel 1 and threatens suit. lie insists that the Alabama law prohibits whites 1 from riding in the negro coacn ana vice versa, and that the conductor's order therefore was in direct violation of the law. Ho also maintains that as an officer ho had a right to i carry his prisoner in the white smoker. I ? ? ? $1,100 Found in Cork Beg. Not placing much faith In banks, Samuel Ridenbaugh, a restaurant keeper in Brunswick, Md., for years deposited his savings in a holo in his cork leg, especially prepared for a hanking receptacle. When ho died $1,100 was found in tlio artificial limb. 1 ? ? Both Wilson and 'Marshall are elders in the Presbyterian Church, and are regular church attendants. They no doubt believo in election and will bo elected. CAUGHT WITH GRAFT SEVERAL DETROIT ALDERMEN HAD MARKED BILLS GIVEM THEM BY BURNS To Pass Certain Important Measures Through the City Council for the Benefit of tho Wabash Railroad, and Eighteen of Them Have Been Arrested Charged With Grafting. Prosecuting Attorney Sheppard of Dotroit. announced Wednesday after noon that Edward Schreiter, deposed councilmanic clerk, who made a complete confession after his arrest with eighteen aldermen in connection with bribery charges, will from now on assist him in prosecuting the aldermen. "Schreiter is now an attache of the prosecutor's ofllce; you might call him an assistant without pay," said the prosecutor. The statement was made after the arraignment of the eighteen aldermen and Scheitor. The cases were set for hearing on August 2 0. Schreiter, who was one of the officials arrested, is to appear on the same charges. The hearing of the' councilmanic officials was featured by scathing denunciation hurled upon Schreiter by the aldermen nvolved in his confession. All of the accused officials brand the Schreiter statement as false, notwithstanding the prosecutor refused to give out any of the details of the confession. * ?A *- li n ao Tci o ASSlSiam 11 UBUCUIUI Vyllcuito u .*.=> nowski said that Alderman Thomas Glenman, leader of the common council, and who is said to have received $1,000 bribe money from a detective | in the Wabash Railroad street clos-j ing case, has repeatedly confirmed his confession. All of the aldermen are charged with having been implicated in a plot to force tlio Wabash Railroad to pay i them various sums for their influence in putting through the council a resolution closing a city street for the benefit of tho railroad company. It is declared that nine of tho aldermen actually received bribes, not, however, from a railroad official, but from a detective who posed as such. The nine others, It is charged, agreed to accept certain sums but failed to "collect" at an appointed time. According to tho prosecution tho trap was sprung a short time after nine aldermen were bribed and also after tho time for the others to receive their share of tho money had] expired. Prosecuting Attorney Shop-' herd and the detective claim thati marked bills were found on several of the aldermen after they had been arrested and searched. The nine aldermen arrested last Friday on charges of accepting bribes but for whom no formal warrants) have been issued as yet, are :David Rosenthal, A. A. Deimel, Louis Tossy, Martin Ostrowski, Jos. L. Theison, Louis Rrozo Andrew, J. Walsh, Frauk Mason ana i nomas tu. umnnau ident of the county). Warrants charging a promise to accept bribes were issued lates Tuesday for the following aldermen: William Koenig, Wm. H. C. Mindle, Stephen Skrzyki, Patrick O'Brien, Richard (M. Watson, Thomas Lynch, Geo. H. Ellis, Jos. Merritt, Wm. F. to by Edward R. Schreiter, former to by Edward R. Cchrelter, former secretary of the council committees, also charged with bribery who recently made to the prosecutor what the letter termed a full confession. No warrant for Schreiter's arrest has been issued. This case was worker up by Burns and his detectives, who posed as railroad officials, and had conversations with the aldermen recorded by tho dictagraph, which was concealed in the room as in the case at Nlclio's at Spartanburg. The Clerk and several of the aldermen have confessed that they accepted graft as Burns charge they did, and will be prosecuted by the city. ? ? ? WILL CARRY HOME COUNTY. ? Jones Will Have Big Majority in Lancaster County. In a private letter to the editor of the Greenwood Journal <Mr. A. J. Clark, editor of The Lancaster News writes that "Jones will carry Lancaster county by several hundred maority. He is one of the best men that have lived here since I came here over thirty years ago." This news is especially interesting in view of tho fact that Gov. Bleaso has claimed several times that he would carry Lancaster county. Ho reiterated the statement in his speech at Newberry. In this connection it might be added that reports from Newberry are to the effect that the sentiment in that county is very much divided. It is believed, according to reports, that Gov. Blease's majority in his homo county will be very small, if he carries it at all. Hiram W. Johnson, candidate for Vice-President on Roosevelt's ticket, anva hfl would nither eo down to do feat with Theodoro Roosevelt than go to victory with any other Presidential candidate. Tho New York World says Johnson ought to bo a happy candidato for Vice-rresident. Ho is sure to go down to defeat with Theodoro Roosevelt, and there is not tho remotest danger of his going to victory with anybody else. ? Fir email Taken for liurglar. Thomas Dovlin, a member of tho firo department in Springfield, 111., is in tho hospital with a bullot in his head, fired by C. B. Watts, who mistook Dovlin for a robbor. Tho firemen entered tho wrong houso whilo coming home early in tho morning. TROUBLE IS BREWING RAILROAD EMPLOYEES MAY GO ON HUGE STRIKE. ? Nineteen Roads in the South Will beAffected if Men Decide to Walk Out, Says Report. Adlvices reheived here from Macon are in effect that a great strike of railroad employees affecting nineteen Southern railroads is now imminent. According to information from the Georgia city, railroad employees all over the South are now taking part fn a ballot which will determine whether or not the strike shall be called. The Macon News prints the following story concerning the matter: Railroad conductors, trainmen, and yardmen throughout the South are now participating in a ballot taken by mail which will ?eterraine if they shall strike for higMcr wages. This vote will bo collected, polled and announced in Washington, I). C., two weeks hence, and the result, if in favor of a strike, will tnen be communicated as an ultimatum to the general managers of the railroads which aro concerned. There are ninetten railroads that may be affected by a strike. These are as follows: Central of Georgia Railway, Southern Railway, V. S. & W. Railroad, Northern Alabama Railroad, &. & A. Railroad, K. & B. Railroad, T. & C. S. Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Great Northern, C., N. O. &. T. P. Railroad, Alabama Great Southern, Georgia Southern & Florida, R. F. & P. Railroad. Southern in Mississippi, New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago, Seaboard Air Line, Alabama & Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroal. The general committee, composed (lin Mmirmnn nf tho committee Of the several roads affected aro made up as follows: O. R. C. Chairman?W. AT. Hamilton, Macon: S. J. Brooks, .T. A. Dodson, R. B. Mlms, R. W. Moore, L. E. Evans, T. K. Steed, H. Dickinson. J. \V. Loyal, A. C. Aden, J. W. Vaughn, and T. I. Talbtrt. B. R. T. Chairman? -W. V. Hamilton, R. IT. Lanter, J. F. Shelton, T. J. i.Mason, B. F. Pearson, C. G. Stokes, E. M. Tanner, Z. S. Wheels, R. T. Wagner, H. A. Fox, Macon; H. M. Cousins, and J. K. Lush. All official communications being sent from the general managers committee, of which II. Baker is chairman, are addressed to A. B. Garretson, president of the O. R. C. and Val Fitzpatrick, vice-pjrsldent, B. R. T. The officials of the railroads, through the general managers' committee, has issued a letter to the committee in which they state that if the rerinests of tho men are granted, they will ho paying the highest wages in any section of the United States, "which means higher wages than aro paid anywhere in the world". In the circular being sent to each of the employees, the correspondence between the general managers' committee and the officers of the two organizations is given, and the claims made by either side are stated. FolI lowing this correspondence, the form for the vote is printed to be detached and returned to the chairman, signed-' for or against a strike. The decision to take a census of the railroad men as to thtir position on the proposed strike was reached in Macon last Friday *>y the committees from the tranmcn*s associa' 1 """ l>1n " lr l\n llnla n r>."> nniu I lunn. 1 iiu uiuim ucn iwiw v ??v ?? wv? ing distributed throughout the South. Macon railroad employees do not hesitate to say that they think there will he serious developments unless their demands aro granted. The general managers, in their reply, contend that the increase ,if granted, would mean the bankruptcy of the railroads. We hope the matter can be amiably adjusted, as a strike would do neither side any good. Why not arbitrate the matter and settle the trouble without resorting to extreme measures on either side. Strikes and lockouts are relics of barbarism and it does seem that they should be unnecessary for the adjustment of differences among any class of our citizens. MONKEYS TAKE SHIP. Climb in Itigging to the Great Annoyance of Sailors. The voyage of the big steam freighter Egremont Castle, from the far east, ca,mo near being one long nightmare. v.nnn niAtiVnva fnlrAn nn I V/l VJ "V/liV 1UV/1I UV'J O ?T Vi V tn l\VH V/ I ( board at nn eastern nort. They refused to answer the dinner bell; they swarmed in the rigging hopelessly tangling any loose ends of rope thejr could find, swung on the whistle rope, sending forth blasts of the siren in the dead of night; riflod the gallery shelves and upset everything that was not nailed jown. Freedom of the ship had been granted to the monkeys to keep them in better health, but Captain Smith finally ordered them caught and put back in the cages. This resulted in the death of 15. ? Tore Fourteen $20 Rills Up, After she had torn into shreds several $20 bills and tried to lean from. a window, Mrs. Jennie Ldeberwith, sixty years old of No. 168 Tompkins avenue, Williamsburg:, N. Y., was Tuesday taken to Kings Ouunty Hospital for observation as to her sanity. She had destroyed fourteen of the bills in an $S00 roll when discovered. ? ? Hailstones Kill Child. Caught out in a fearful hailstorm which swept over Sheridan county, Wyo., end Southern uosebud county, Mant., tho three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. iM. Walsh, ranchers on Hat creek, was so severely pelted by ice while playing in tho yard that I death resulted.